Juan Manuel Martínez Ugarte (1 June 1735 – 30 April 1801), known as Manuel Risco or Padre Risco, was a Spanish historian. Born at Haro, he took the Augustinian habit at the Convento de Nuestra Señora del Risco in the

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. He studied at the

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and was a disciple of

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, who took him along with him on his voyages of historical research. On Flórez's death Risco took over the unfinished

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of Spain, ''

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''. By then he was Jefe de Estudios at the

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. He published thirteen volumes of the ''España Sagrada'', from thirty to forty-two, inclusive. In 1800 ill health forced him to resign from the project and he ended his days at the

Monasterio de San Felipe el Real Monasterio is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center ...

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. He was replaced by

Juan Fernández de Rojas Juan Fernández de Rojas (1750–1819) was a Spanish historian, writer and humorist of the School of Salamanca. Published works *''"Dolores Sermon of Father Juan Fernández de Rojas,"'' The City of God, LXXII, 1907, pp. 465–482. ith a ...

from the same monastery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Risco, Manuel 18th-century Spanish historians 1801 deaths 1735 births University of Salamanca alumni